IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 597
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Anti-Nazi propaganda in Germany
Date(s): 1944-1945
Level of description: Collection level (fonds)
Extent: c 33 frames
Name of creator(s): US Office of Strategic Services
Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee Hamburg
Antifaschistischer Gewerkschafts-Ausschuss Elmshorn
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War Two. It was the wartime intelligence agency and was the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Microfilm of anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets comprising leaflets produced by the US Office of Strategic Services (especially by W Necker), 1944-1945, for distribution in Germany, 1944-1945, partly in draft form; drafts of letters to be sent to party officials and ministers and serving as disinformation and black propaganda; leaflets possibly from German underground organisations including 'Aktionskomitee West, Abteilung 6 Panzerarmee' and two leaflets directed at Polish soldiers in the German occupation forces in France (in Polish). Leaflets circulated by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee Hamburg, April 1945 and nd, and the Antifaschistischer Gewerkschafts-Ausschuss Elmshorn, May 1945.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: German, some Polish
System of arrangement:
Arranged in two sections as follows: leaflets produced by the US Office of Strategic Services and leaflets circulated by the Antifaschistisches Deutsches Kampf Komitee Hamburg and the Antifaschistischer Gewerkschafts-Ausschuss Elmshorn.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2008